Month: August 2009

Karen Lightman, Managing Director, MEMS Industry Group MEMS is hot – it’s hotter than ever. Market research firms expect the total market for MEMS devices to exceed US $8 billion by 2012. Demand for MEMS devices is rapidly creating new business opportunities for both entrepreneurs and established companies alike. As a diverse industry across numerous […]

Tom Morrow, Vice President, Global Expositions & Marketing, SEMI The MEMS industry is changing from a one-process-per-product technology to a one-process-many-product one. Critical to this transformation are industry standards that reduce costs and spur meaningful innovation. The SEMI MEMS Technical Committee has been meeting this challenge since 2003, developing several important standards that have yielded […]

By St.J. Dixon-Warren, Manager, Process Engineering, Chipworks The Freescale MMA6222AEG Accelerometer is targeted for automotive applications and is implemented in a relatively large 13.0 mm x 7.6 mm x 3.3 mm thick 20-LEAD SOIC package. The MMA6222AEG is fabricated with Freescale’s HARMEMS process using a thick SOI layer to form the mechanical layer of the […]